wanderlust

Leonard: “You’ll never guess what just happened.”
Sheldon: “You went out in the hallways, stumbled into an inter-dimensional portal, which brought you 5,000 years into the future, where you took advantage of advanced technology to build a time machine, and now you’re back, to bring us all with you to the year 7010, where we are transported to work at the think-a-torium by telepathically controlled flying dolphins?”

big bang theory

Pay attention to patterns.

wanderer

My mother’s favourite photograph was one of herself, at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.

amy bloom

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasing onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

douglas adams